Advanced history matching solutions: an integrated field case application

Mathieu Feraille and Frederic Roggero of Institut Français du Pétrole (IFP) and Leandro Reis of Petrobras (Petrobras) present an innovative integrated methodology for constraining 3D stochastic reservoir models to well data and production history. In this paper the proposed approach makes it possible to history match complex reservoir models in a consistent way by updating the entire simulation workflow. Advanced parameterization techniques are used to modify either the geostatistical model directly or the fluid flow simulation parameters in the same inversion loop.